Capital punishment via nitrogen is ‘cruel and unusual’
(May 24) MOBILE, Alabama, and NEW ORLEANS — What part of the words “cruel and unusual” do lawmakers in Louisiana and Alabama not understand? Imposing outlandish cruelty while inviting a […]
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Democrats should convince Biden to retire
(May 27) National Democratic leaders really should listen to legendary Democratic strategist James Carville and then go a step beyond. They should find a way to push President Joe Biden […]
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A partial mea culpa from me to Garret Graves
(The Advocate/T-P, May 22) For more than four decades I have been a fierce critic of the standards, or lack thereof, that prevail in too many outlets for American journalism. […]
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Louisiana Gov. Landry is on a bad power trip
(Advocate/Times-Picayune, May 19) Whatever Gov. Jeff Landry is up to, it’s not conservatism as I’ve known it for 60 years now. It’s just a vaguely attitudinally right-wing power play. […]
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Louisiana redistricting ruling makes Supreme Court look bad
(May 1) In its reasonable decision to throw out Louisiana’s congressional redistricting plan on Wednesday, a federal judicial panel implicitly highlighted, yet again, the confusing mess both Congress and the Supreme Court have […]
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Law-breaking protesters deserve no mercy
Two pieces on the sickeningly pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests roiling college campuses. (The link to each full piece is embedded in each headline.) These people are criminals, so arrest and imprison […]
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Speaker Johnson finally, but admirably, steps up for Ukraine
(April 24) The overwhelming congressional votes for aid to Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine show just how out of touch the isolationists and Ukraine skeptics on both ends of the American […]
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Rep. Garret Graves is a big disappointment
(The Advocate/T-P, April 21) U.S. Rep. Garret Graves is fighting for his political life in a redistricting battle, but it may be no great loss if he fails. He has […]
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Brewbaker is running an honorable campaign in AL-2
MOBILE, Alabama — Here in Alabama, in a unique race in a bizarre district mandated by misguided judges, one Republican congressional candidate is trying to prove politics can be conducted […]
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No Labels should have run Bill Cassidy for president
Just two days day before the No Labels group announced — as I feared would happen — that it is not going to run a ticket in the presidential campaign, […]
